636 Quotes by Gillian Flynn

I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me. She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did. She tended to me. She administrated me.

Richard wanted to take me to all the town's secret places, the nooks only the locals knew about. Places where people meet to screw or smoke dope, where teens drink, or folks go to sit by themselves and decide where their lives had unraveled. Everyone has a moment where life goes off the rails.

I drank the rest of the sours and had dark sticky dreams. My mother had cut me open and was unpacking my organs, stacking them in a row on my bed as my flesh flapped to either side.

I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.

If you own a bar on your own, you're a player; if you own it with your beloved twin sister, you're–""Irish.

...so Cool Girl is a tattooed, bespectacled nerd who loves comics.

There are few phrases that annoy me more than 'I won’t bite'. The only line that pisses me off faster is when some drunk, ham-faced dude in a bar sees me trying to get past him and barks: 'Smile, it can’t be that bad!' Yeah, actually, it can, jackwad.

... it’s a nice day’s work when you make a lot of people smile.

That's how screwed up you are, I thought. Your idea of adulthood still comes from picturebooks.